As killings continue in Sydney streets, Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann has stepped up her call for the legal regulation of cocaine. Paul Gregoire 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
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Budget measures to raise the tax on tobacco products are supposedly聽about 鈥渉arm minimisation鈥 and discouraging smoking when it鈥檚 another attack on the poor. Isaac Nellist 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
The Australian Lawyers Alliance has renewed calls to decriminalise cannabis use, saying Victorian Labor must shift away from law enforcement and punishment.聽Kerry Smith reports.
From your morning coffee to your afternoon alcoholic drink with friends, drugs play a significant role in society. However, the war against drugs that has plagued society has resulted in a differentiation between the legal drugs we consume and the drugs that are criminalised by the government.
According to 2016 government data, 8.5 million people 鈥 43% of Australians 鈥 have used recreational drugs and illegally obtained pharmaceuticals for recreational or self-medication uses.
鈥溾, screamed the front page of the Herald Sun on July 6, in a very clever pun on North Richmond鈥檚 safe injecting room that had opened a few days earlier.
鈥淎ddicts snub injecting facility鈥 and 鈥淣othing changed in heroin hotspot鈥 sat above the main cover slogan to emphasise the point about ungrateful 鈥渄ruggies鈥.